Group flies Confederate flag again at South Carolina capitol

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 1:17 pm, Monday, July 10, 2017






COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group still angry that South Carolina removed a Confederate flag from the Statehouse lawn has raised the rebel banner on a temporary pole at the capitol again.

The South Carolina Secessionist Party planned to leave it up for several hours Monday, and said they will fly the flag every July 10th.

Two years ago Monday, state officials removed the flag that flew outside the capitol for 15 years. The decision by lawmakers was prompted by the massacre of nine black worshippers in a racist attack at a Charleston church.
 
About 50 flag supporters were separated Monday from a dozen protesters who hurled sarcastic insults.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Group-flies-Confederate-flag-again-at-South-11277978.php

[SunSeeker]

1. K & R for exposure of traitors.

[Wolf Frankula]

2. An Armed Group under a Hostile Flag

Call out the State Militia, disperse them immediately.


Wolf

[Sneederbunk]

3. The symbol of ignominious defeat.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Had to look up who the black woman was

She (Arlene Barnum) apparently goes to these types of things in support of the confederate "heritage" (including its monuments, etc) and "southerners" -

http://wgno.com/2017/04/26/black-woman-drives-to-new-orleans-to-make-sure-jefferson-davis-lives-to-see-another-day/

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/21295-passenger-with-slain-black-confederate-activist-tells-her-story

There are apparently a small group of black confederate-embracing activists who descend from those blacks who did serve as confederate soldiers during the Civil War.

[SCantiGOP]

5. There weren't "about 50" flag supporters

I live in Columbia, and a friend of mine who works downtown walked past there this morning. She said there were no more than 25 supporters there, and at least 10 of them selling memorabilia. She said there were more than 50 opponents chanting and holding signs.

[Solly Mack]

6. Uh..damn.

[Starry Messenger]

7. I just don't understand why these folks work so hard to be traitors.

[csziggy]

9. Or why they are so proud of their heritage of being descended from losers

I can say that because half my ancestors were from the South and most of the Civil War generation enlisted in the Confederate Army. Some never came home at all and some came home but left body parts on the battlefields. None of them came home and were proud of what they had done.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. "Congress shall make no law...."

This is free speech.

What a concept.